- Israel Levin. “At times I spent up to eight hours a day with him. Once I ate at his house every
day for five weeks,” Israel Levin reported in his retrospective account of the period when Stages on
Life’s Way was written. Levin was a literary scholar, a writer, a translator, a publisher, a quarrelsome
person, a drinker, a misogynist, and a great deal more—including Kierkegaard’s secretary. At his death,
his effects included a collection of 150,000 cards, the beginnings of a dictionary; this became an es-
sential part of the twenty-six-volume Dictionary of the Danish Language.
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